I was able to edit the bios and flash it using nvflash and set the max fan speed to 100% and lowest 25% and its silent now the only thing that wasn't locked in the bios was the max and min fan speed but it somehow magically adjusted the fan speed curve by itself. now i idle at ~27%

That's exactly the reason why I went through the trouble of having those GPU blocks shipped from Taiwan, because My CPU was watercooled at the time so the GPU fan noise was really really loud in comparison to the rest of what was in my system. I would really like to push my GPUs but don't want to live with the noise.

So with the release of the 7 series how much of a dive in used prices are our beloved 5 series cards going to drop? I've got a guy at work jumping to a 660 and am talking with him on taking on his 570 so I can finally run in SLI. I just don't want to spend more than it's worth than me just dumping my 570 and taking the 7 series jump. Anyone else in a similar predicament?